Physics and Astronomy

4MOST Science Team Meeting 9-12 May 2023, University of Sussex

The Science Team Meeting 2023 will provide an opportunity for detailed discussion of 4FS results based on near-final survey catalogues, along with the outcomes of the Catalogue and OpR3.5 Readiness Reviews happening in March.

We also plan to incorporate a L2 pipeline progress review. The programme will revolve mainly around inter-survey coordination and discussions within the Infrastructure Working Groups (IWGs).

Conference Announcements

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Visas 

Please consider your visa situation and whether you need a letter of invitation and also whether there could be visa issues on your return journey home.

There is a UK website that may help you determine whether you need a visa: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

If you will require a letter of invitation or similar documents for visa purposes, please email both Emma Ransley on (mpsresearchsupport@sussex.ac.uk) and Jon Loveday  (j.loveday@sussex.ac.uk

Programme

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Travel information

The University of Sussex is located in Brighton. Brighton is under an hour by rail from London, 40 minutes by road from the M25, 30 minutes from London Gatwick International Airport and 90 minutes from London Heathrow International Airport. And when you get here, everything is a 10-minute stroll away!

Directions to reach Brighton as well as the University campus can be found at this link (https://www.sussex.ac.uk/about/directions).

The conference will be held at the University of Sussex Conference Centre (Bramber House) on the University campus in Falmer, which is a short bus or train ride away from Brighton city centre. The University of Sussex Conference Centre is the building located in position C6 on the University of Sussex camus map (https://www.sussex.ac.uk/webteam/gateway/file.php?name=uos-campus-map.pdf&site=271).

Up to date government guidance regarding COVID-19 can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus.

Accommodation

Brighton is a very popular holiday destination and May is already considered high season for tourism. Add link here?

Accommodation for the conference can of course also be booked using other commercial  booking sites.

Registration
Please register to the conference by using wikidot.com
In order to complete the registration, please pay the conference fees by using the University of Sussex online shop here:

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The conference fees include: conference material; dinner served at the Walrus, Pub and Roof Garden in Brighton (thewalrusbrighton.com)

Conference Dinner

Participants who are coming to the conference in person are requested to submit preferences for the conference dinner (which will be held on Thursday 19th of May at the Brighton Beach Club restaurant on the Brighton seafront) by filling in this form. Please add your preferences by Thursday 5th of May at the latest.  --- update this once we have all the info.

Conference dinner menu

Prizes and Awards

The conference will set up a Best Presentation and Best Poster Award (£300/each) for young participants sponsored by the journal Instruments (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/instruments) and the University of Sussex School of Mathematics and Physical Sciences.

There will also be a prize for ‘best presentation on the topic of R&D on sensor detectors’ (£300) sponsored by CAEN (https://www.caen.it/).

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Proceedings

The proceedings will be published by Instruments (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/instruments, ISSN 2410-390X), an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal of scientific instrumentation and related methods and theory published quarterly online by MDPI.

A template for the proceedings (provided by the journal) is attached to the conference's Indico page (in the 'Overview' section): https://indico.cern.ch/event/847884/.

Instructions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/instruments/special_issues/calor22. The deadline to submit the proceedings is 31st July. The maximum number of pages are 6-10 pages for talks and 4-6 pages for posters.

After the papers have been submitted, the journal will define different article type according to the content and the length. For example, use 'article' for papers with more than 8 pages, 'communication'/'project report' for papers with less pages. This will be discussed case by case.

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Past Conferences

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